Posted on 08/24/2014 7:04:23 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
THE Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed its first two cases this year of Ebola but claimed they were unrelated to the epidemic ravaging West Africa.
“The results are positive. The Ebola virus is confirmed in DRC,” Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said, referring to tests undertaken on people after an unidentified fever killed 13 in the northwest Equateur province this month.
He said the confirmation marked the seventh outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo, where the virus was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River.
The two new cases had “no link to (the epidemic) raging in West Africa,” Kabange said, adding that further tests were under way.
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Doctor Who?
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Democrats. They bring death wherever they are found.
Yes, it’s all very sad, isn’t it? The season premier was just last night. Now, he has Ebola.
:D
I don’t know which is worse:
The outbreak in the Congo is unrelated to outbreaks in other, nearby, countries. This implies a whole new patent zero and other concerns.
The outbreak in the Congo is related to outbreaks in other, nearby, countries. This implies that containment attempts have at least partly failed.
In either case this isn’t good news for the rest of the world.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Every cannibal in the Congo, prefers
Vitameatavegabushmeat:
“It tasty too. Taste like candy.”
That means the Ebola EVD variant is currently spreading across the African roads to the population of African long distance truckers and their prostitutes — “blood born” also means sexually transmitted — to everywhere in Africa.
The poverty of Africa means that local prostitutes do a great deal more anal than vaginal sex due to a lack of contraceptives and in particular condoms.
In a matter of weeks we will be seeing prostitute vector Ebola showing up with village headmen and African government officials across equitorial Black Africa.
The timing of this Congo outbreak fits that sexual mode of transmission.
We have already lost rural equatorial West Africa in Liberia and the Liberian cities are dying.
It is now a question of limiting the damage.
This is the MSDS sheet on Ebola.
It uses 23 days, not five days, as the survival time outside the host.
http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-sheet-index/ebola-virus.aspx
COMMUNICABILITY: Communicable as long as blood, secretions, organs, or semen contain the virus. Ebola virus has been isolated from semen 61 days after the onset of illness, and transmission through semen has occurred 7 weeks after clinical recovery (1, 2).
and
SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23). Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4°C for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70°C (6, 20). Infectivity can be preserved by lyophilisation.
My understanding is the Congo version is what has historically been seen, whereas the other area appears to be a different strain which may have greater potential for spreading... though no one will say airborne officially.
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